Portraits

*Hassan, 8, who lived through a two year occupation by ISIS plays by an extinguished oil well near the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, which had been set on fire by ISIS in September to provide cover from airstrikes as they fled the town. Picture taken on December 2, 2016.

REEM

Reem, 22, from Deir Ezzour in Syria poses for a portrait in the tent in which her family live in an informal settlement for Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on November 29, 2017.

In Lebanon, more than one million Syrian refugees who are registered with UNCHR live in non-camp settings.

Host communities are increasingly in competition for jobs, wages and affordable housing. Overall perceptions of the crisis are having a negative impact on social cohesion, particularly in areas with a high concentration of refugees.

Joman Khalaf, 6, is photographed in Kapartu IDP camp near Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on June 6th, 2017. Joman, a Yazidi originally from Sinjar, was captured by Islamic State fighters when they stormed the city in August 2014. She was sold to an ISIL fighter, living as his family's slave until she was sold back to her family last August. She now lives in her cousin's tent with her brothers, who were also sold back to their family. Her parents are still unaccounted for.

A man from the neighbourhood of Al-Zanjili in West Mosul sits with his family in tent at a camp for displaced civilians in Hamam Al-Alil, which he came to ten days ago, on June 10, 2017. His family said that during the last three months they survived on nothing more than flour and water.

Ahmed al Hardani, 16, talks to The Telegraph in Erbil, Iraq, on March 11, 2017. Ahmed, a member of the Yazidi sect, was captured by ISIS in 2014 when they invaded his village near the city of Sinjar in north eastern Iraq.

Raghda Jubrail, 25, stands outside her tent in Hassan Sham camp near the town of Khazer, Iraq.
Raghda and her family came to the camp 30 days ago after Iraqi security forces took their neighbourhood and a mortar fired by ISIS destroyed their house.

SANG

Sang* 13, holds a kitten at his grandparents' house in Thang Hoa Province, Vietnam, on 23 November, 2017. His mother Duong Thi Lan, 32, who usually works in the south of the country is visiting for the first time in 9 months.

AHMAD

Ahmad Jamaa, 21, stops to see friends after collecting a blanket and a pack containing nappies, sanitary towels, a solar powered lamp, women's underwearand a mosquito net, which Oxfam is distributing to 400 families in West Owsija, a small village near Qayyarah that was occupied by ISIS from August 2014 to September 2016.

EMAM

Emam Mahdi Saleh, 36, in her beauty salon in Jalawla, Iraq. Emam, a mother of five, was given a loan of $2000 by Oxfam to repair her Salon after it was damaged during the ISIS occupation of Jalawla.

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A boy whose father was killed in an airstrike while working as a chef for ISIL stands in the tent in which he, his five sisters and mother now live, in a camp for displaced people in Hamam al-Alil, near Mosul, Iraq, on July 28th, 2017.